This post takes us back to 31 March 2013 when I was still in 11th grade. Back then, my Bahasa Indonesia class had to perform a theatre performance at Sekolah High Scope Indonesia. My team and I performed a musical theatre called “Si Putih dan Si Merah” which means “The White and The Red”. It is a story about a girl named Putih. Her father remarried a woman that has a daughter named Merah. What the father did not know was that the woman married him only to gain his wealth. Not long after that, Putih’s father passed away because the stepmother secretly poisoned him. Putih had to live with her stepmother and stepsister. Both Merah and the stepmother treated Putih like a maid. Putih took an advice from her close friend, Bombay and decided to run away together. However, on their journey to find peace and safety, they met an old lady that gave Putih a cake. The cake was filled with a love spell. The old lady turned out to be working with a corrupter that had a hobby of marrying rich women to gain money and wealth. Putih was under a love spell and fell in love with the corrupter. Bombay saved her from being fooled and finally confessed his love to Putih. Merah who did not know that the man who she thought was a prince turned out to that corrupter. So, Merah and the stepmother ended up being poor and Putih and Bombay lived happily ever after. BUT, that it was not the end of the story. Everything turned out to be a dream! Putih and Merah are twin sisters who were asleep. Putih and Merah woke up and realized it was all just a dream. They had a habit of arguing and fighting. The dream helped them to forgive each other and to make up for each other.
Every team in my Bahasa Indonesia class had to create a theatre performance based on legend from Indonesia. Our team decided to create a musical theatre based on “Bawang Merah dan Bawang Putih” legend. Almost everyone had their own roles on stage and back stage but there were also others who worked only on the back stage. Hani, my friend, Fia and I were in charge of writing the script. Hani and I were also in charge of making choreography for the performance. The musical theatre was organized in Indonesian since it was a Bahasa Indonesia class after all. The theme for this musical performance was drama, romance with a little action in it. Some people in our team had martial arts experience, so we decided to put a little action in our musical theater to spice up our performance. I love how everyone was very supportive toward creating a great performance and they were also fun to work together with. We were able to perform our best and entertained the audience! It was an amazing experience!
P.S: I played the role of Si Putih. So, I was the heroine of the performance! :)